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UNITED STATES ATEN-T @rricn.

FREDERIO STUART VEATHERLEY, OF QUEBEC, QUEBEC, OANADA.

CONVERTIBLE. STAND.

SPECIFICATION forming'part of Letters Patent No. 366,051, dated July5,1887.

Application filed May 3, 1887. Serial No. 236,950. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERIO STUART WEATHERLEY, of Quebec, in theProvince of Quebecand Dominion of Canada, have invented a new andImproved Convertible Stand, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description.

. and folded up into compact My invent-ion relates to the constructionof a device which, while of simple and cheap design, can be quicklyadjusted to form various conveniences of household, use, will possessample strength and firmness in any one of its adjustments, and can bereadily taken apart form for storage or removal.

The invention consists in the'construction, combination, and arrangementof parts and details, as hereinafter fully described, and particularlypointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7,'and 8 are perspective views, hereinafter fullydescribed, illustrating various adjustments of which the device issusceptible. Fig. 5 is detail sectional view showing the form of catchemployed for holding the boards in place on the frame of the device.Fig. 9 is aperspective view illustrating the mode of taking the deviceapart. Fig. 10, illustrates in side view the device when folded, andFigs. 11 and 12 are detail views illustrating the form of catch used insecuring the parts of the frame together.

The'frame of the stand is supported by two end pairs of verticalcorner-posts, A A and B B, all of which are of equal length and exactlyparallel with each other. The posts A A and B B of each pair arepermanently con-.

' nected and rigidly braced by four parallel cross'bars, G, D, E, and F,the outer bars, G and F, being arranged a short distance from therespective ends of the corncr-posts and the medial bars, D E, beingarranged at an equal distance from the bars 0 and F, respectively. Theposts A B and A B are respectively connected and braced by longitudinalside bars, G and H, in the plane of the end bars 0 and F, respectively,the bars G- being hinged to the inner sides of the posts 13 B, the barsH similarly hinged to the posts A A, and the free end of each of saidbars G- and H being formed with a tenon, K, which is received detachably in a corresponding slot, L, in the post thereat. A button, M, ispivoted eccentrically to the outer end of each tenon K, as shownclearlyin Figs. 11 and 12, and thus can be turned over the face of thepost to securely lock the tenon therein, or swung back to allow thetenon with the button to be withdrawn from the slot when taking theframe apart,

as illustrated in Fig. 9. Three rectangular boards, N, of like size areemployed in connection with the frame, and each of the boards is formedin each side edge with two slots, 0 and 1 respectively, the slots beingall adapted to fit closely the posts, end, and side braces of the frame,which are of equal and uniform cross section. At the base of each of theslots 0 and P in the several boards is pivoted a catch-arm, Q, as shownin detail in Fig. 5, which is adapted to be swung into one of theangle-slots R formed in the inner corners of the side bars, G and H, andend cross-bars O D at the points at which the slots 0 and P are adaptedto embrace the same, as hereinafter more fully described. Blocks S aresecured in the outer angles between the end cross-barGand thecorresponding end parts of the corner-posts, and extend to within adistance of the ends of the same equal to the thickness of the boards N.

In arranging the stand thus constructed as a table, as shown in Fig. 1,the frame is set up, as described, with the blocks S uppermost, and oneboard N is placed upon the blocks S, with its slots 0 and P embracingthe projectingends of the corner-posts, so that the board is held firmlyin place, while its up per surface is flush with the tops of the posts.

Another board N is rested upon the end and side bars F and H,respectively, with its slots 0 and 1 also embracing the corner-posts.

A music-stand or book-rack is formed, as in Fig. 2, by inverting theframe and arranging the three boards N vertically and crosswise of InFig. 3 is shown a towel-raclz, formed by placing one board N upon theend and side bars G ofthe inverted frame.

In Fig. 4 the stand is shown arranged as a boot-and-shoe rack. Theframeis inverted as before, and two of the boards N are restedhorizontally upon the end and side bars 0 G and the end bars E,respectively, while the remaining board is placed in an inclinedposition, with its slots P embracing the upper 1 ends .of the posts B A,its slots 0 embracing diagonally the end cross-bars F, and its forwardedge abutting against. the inner side of ihe corresponding side bar, H.A curtain can be bound between the said bar Hand the forward edge of theboard, as shown in the figure.

In Fig. Gone board N is placed horizontally upon the end and side bars 0G of the inverted frame and the other two boards arranged verticallyupon and at either side of the bottom board, with their upper slots, P,embracing the end cross-barsDand the catcharms Q swung into the slots Rin said bars D, as before described, so as to-constitute a con.- venientcane-and-umbrella stand.

In Fig. 7 a book-shelf is shown, formed by arrangingthe boardshorizontally one above the other upon the proper end and side bars ofthe inverted frame with their slots-O P embracing the corner-posts, asbefore.

In Fig. 8 the frame is shown arranged, asin Fig. 1, with a bottom andtwo vertical side boards N supported upon the end cross-bars D, with theslots of the side boards embracing the end crossbars O, and having thecatch- ELI'DIS Q engaged with the slots R therein to form a substantialladies work-table or flowerpot stand.

The braced pairs of end posts, A A and B B, with their respective hingedside bars, H and G, can be readily detached from each other, as beforedescribed in connection with Fig. 9, the side bars folded upon theposts, and the same, with the boards N, arranged in the compact formshown in Fig. 10 for removal or storage.

. Having thus fully described my invention, v

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- Y 1, Theherein-described convertible stand,

composed of the pairs of parallel corner-posts A A and B B, the endcross-bars, O, D, E, and F, connecting the posts of each pair, the pairsof side bars, G and H, connecting the posts 'A B and A B, respectively,and the removable boards N, having the side notches,

O and P, the said posts, end and side bars allthe end of each tenon K,substantially as shown and described.

3. In a convertible stand of the character described, the combination,with asupportingbar, as H, having a slot, R, extending through a partonly'of'its cross-section, of aboard, N,

having a notch adapted to embrace the said bar, a catch-arm, K, pivotedto the board at the notchtherein and adapted to enter theslot in thebar, substantially as shown and described.

4. In a convertible stand of the class described, the' combination, withthe cornerposts A A B B and the end and side bars, 0

and G, connecting the same, of blocks S, fixed in the upper angle of theposts and end bars and extending to within ashort distance of the endsof the same, and the board N, having notches O and P, adapted to embracethe end of the corner-posts and resting on the blocks S, substantiallyas shownand described. 1

' 'FREDERIC STUART WEATIIERLEY.

Witnesses:

J. G. SCOTT, ERNEST F. WiiRTELE.

